AN INFLUENCE APPROACH FOR SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF NON-RANDOM DROPOUT BASED ON THE COVARIANCE STRUCTURE

Document Type : Regular Paper

Authors

Dept. of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, I. R. of Iran

Abstract

A generalized Heckman model is used for the joint modeling of longitudinal continuous
responses and dropout in order to see the influence of a small perturbation of the elements of the
covariance structure on displacement of the likelihood. The perturbation from random dropout in the
direction of informative dropout is considered for Mastitis data.

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